traded in my truck last fall for this van. its taken me all year building to get it to where she is now. but it has allowed me so many adventures. the first trip in it was to go fish with B-Lat in the spring, it was only half built then. took the wife to Maine and got to fish new water farther away from home. I've already started planning my adventures for next year. Fishing with Darrel in Florida in February, and Wisconsin with Kevin in July. I would like to go fishing with a few other SUF members during the season. if your interested let me know. My boat or yours. Your body of water. 

got our first measurable snow over night. 😢

Just finished watching/listening to coaching call-Brush piles. My season is over and the boat has been put away and I'm trying to decide what to do for next season. towards the end of this session a lot of time is spent talking about "we learn from each other" and how we "stop learning" when we stop sharing information. I have had this idea for a little while bouncing around in my head and  would like to know who is interested in fishing with me next year? I want to fish new waters and what better way to do that, than coming to your lake and fishing with you for the weekend or a day. Have a team "open" tournament on your favorite lake, I'm game. We can fish out of your boat or mine.  i would like to make 1 trip a month starting in late Jan. early Feb. Anyone interested get in touch and lets go rip some lips together.

well tis the season. went to 3 different lakes near the house today and could not launch the boat. winter draw down is in full effect. i either winterize and put it away till spring or i head south. anyone interested in me bringing my boat to your lake and going fishing with you for the weekend or day? hit me up if your interested? 

day 2 at Alum creek was not any better started my morning at the Marina break walls and yep them cute smallies were there.  got em on the drop shot with the flat worm. decided to make a change and ran north to new water i have never been to. i took the west(left ) branch and fished the island. circling/laps starting from 15ft depth working my way in. every lap i changed baits .pulled the large mount with the crank bait. the water clarity has drop to 1 ft  visibility and stained. the break wall on the main lake was 3-4ft visibility. i finished my day working my way back out cranking the points. no luck. todays arsenal of baits was the same as yesterday. struggled to find scorable fish. 

Captains log 27 September, scratch that, I'm not a captain. water temp 72 degrees, weather 82 sunny and bird blue sky's, winds light(under 10) fished the main lake points on the west side of Alum Creek today. stayed in 15 ft, this put me close to 1 cast from the outside weed line. 10 hrs and i caught a couple of cute ones and a couple of wally,s. (they weren't even enough to make a samich)  todays tools of destruction (non-destruction) 1/2oz Rattle trap, Berkley dime 6 sexy shad, stunna +1, 3/16 moon eye jig head with mooch minnow gizzard shad, neko rig green pumpkin stick bait, green pumpkin flat worm on a drop shot, and a micro jig with a trd trailer.( like Bardie I can't get myself to throw a ned rig, this one has a skirt) ALL my fish came off the drop shot off of the marina break walls sitting in 15ft. not sure what i'm going to do tomorrow. its not fishin like June. Any suggestions?